Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)- CLINICAL REASONING

DCD is often an overlooked developmental problem by the clinical practitioners. There is extensive evidence that focuses on the difficulties that these children face to organize ADL, they experience highest trouble to plan and organize themselves in accordance to a new and unfamiliar as well as familiar environment. They commonly affect the child both in school and at home, and when these children compared with the same age peer group they experience difficulty to acquire skills which has been acquired easily by other children with no effort. Since the early 1900s, the scientific community has diagnosed a large group of children with motor difficulties and they have been classified under a general medical condition. Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is not a new terminology. Over the past years different terminology has been used to describe children with a predominant feature of motor coordination difficulties.